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Introduction to vSAN (Virtual SAN)

Introduction to vSAN (Virtual SAN) - vSphere Tutorial

From the course: VMware vSphere 6.5 Advanced Storage

Introduction to vSAN (Virtual SAN)

- [Instructor] In this video, we'll learn about VMware's Virtual SAN, or VSAN product, that leverages the local storage of ESXi hosts to present high performance shared storage across a cluster. I know that's a mouthful, so let's start with the very basics. With Virtual SAN, we are going to allow local storage to be used as shared storage. And this is really important, because for features like vMotion, or High Availability, or DRS, we have to have shared storage. We require shared storage for any of those features, and so if we're going to vMotion a VM from one host to another, if we're going to enable HA across a cluster, and allow virtual machines to fail over across that cluster, if a single host fails, or if multiple hosts fails, we have to have shared storage in order to enable those features. And same thing with DRS. If we're going to enable Distributed Resource Scheduler, we have to use vMotion for that, and therefore we require shared storage. So if you're going to set up…

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